On 05/16/2013 02:47 AM, Marc Paré wrote: > Although I am one who whole heartedly defends and promotes opensource > software, I would be more inclined to use the Adobe logo as we are > producing files in the Adobe reader format. It has more recognized value > for our users. When the GNU project reaches the break point where they > have taken over the iconic value of the Adobe logo, then we could change.
PDF is an open standard (ISO 32000) based on PostScript, and therefore on Adobe patents and technologies. The PDF icon, without the Adobe name on it, is representative of the file format, and cannot be replaced by any other icon. The GNU PDF icon is representative of a project, and it cannot be used to represent the file format (it represents open libraries capable of supporting the PDF file format, because the original libraries are Adobe proprietary, although free to use). So, we will not use another icon to represent the file format, because any other icon does not represent the file format. We might use GNU PDF icon if we make use of the GNU PDF libraries (which I do not think it is true, because our PDF implementation goes back to 2002, when the GNU PDF project did not exist, so we use our own free libraries, but here I might be wrong). FSF John SUllivan, who knows software and understands file formats, has never asked us to use the GNU PDF icon, because he knows that it would be a major mistake. I hope this clarifies the issue. -- Italo Vignoli - [email protected] mob +39.348.5653829 - VoIP [email protected] skype italovignoli - gtalk [email protected] -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
